Milex Diaphragm Fitting Kit

This is the official manufacturer supplied fitting kit to be used by doctors and trained healthcare professionals for assessment of a woman's diaphragm size.

A fitting kit is an essential tool for any practitioner who wants to expand access to this increasingly popular non-hormonal birth control option.

Diaphragm Fitting Kit Specifications

Because Milex manufactures two diaphragm styles, Omniflex and Arching, there two corresponding fitting kits. The sizes of the diaphragms are identical. However, the different spring mechanisms mean that they fold, unfold and are inserted differently, and a patient might respond better to a specific style. Offering your patients the chance to try both types of diaphragms allows each woman the opportunity to find her ideal fit.

The diaphragm fitting kits contain 5 different sizes diaphragms: 65mm, 70mm, 75mm, 80mm and 85mm. Milex also manufactures size 60mm and 90mm diaphragms. Although they are not included in the fitting kit, the concept is that if a patient is smaller than the 65mm sample they need size 60mm, and if they are larger than the 85mm then the 90mm diaphragm would be prescribed.

Each diaphragm supplied in the fitting kit has a small hole punctured in the middle. This differentiates the sample diaphragms used for multiple patients (after being sterilized) from a diaphragm that would be used by a single patient for contraceptive purposes. This also ensures that the fitting kits can be sold at an accessible price, considerably lower than five true diaphragms would cost. Keeping costs down helps practitioners choose to invest in helping woman access alternative methods of contraception.

The diaphragms supplied in the Milex fitting kits can withstand repeated autoclaving or boiling.